Shipping-box



lw. G. nowNE.

SHIPPING Box.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 5.1916. 1,309,877., Y Patented July 15, 1919.

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THE coLUMBIA PLANoaRAPH C01. WASHINGTON, klll. C.

WILLIAM G. BROW N E, 0F DENVER, COLORADO.

SHIPPING-Box.

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM- G. BRowNn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county ofJDenver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping' Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, suchfas will enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same. The invention relates to improvements in shipping` boxes particularly for use in shipping bottled goods, which said box is designed to reduce to a minimum'the possibility of breaking the bottles during shipment. The obj ect of the invention is to provide a box of the class specified which will sustain the bottles in spaced apart relation and in lixed cushioned positions so that they will not be subjected to sudden jars of sufficient force to result in breaking the bottles.

Another object of the invention is to provide an extremely simple and inexpensive packing means for receiving the bottles and which may be destroyed after once having been used.

Another obj ect of the invention is to providel removable packing trays constructed of paper, or of some other inexpensive material, which may be economically destroyed after having once been used. n

Another object'of the invention is to provide a shipping box in which the packing trays are separable from the" box, thereby making it possible to construct a packing box at much less expense than the ordinary shipping box in which the' packing, or spacing means is an integral part of the box.

With these and other objects in view, thev invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof.

In this drawing, Figure 1 is a cross sectional view of the shipping box, showing the packing trays therein.

Fig. 2 is a fragmental sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 isa sectional view of the bottom packing tray in its unfolded condition.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawing by the same reference characters.

Let the numeral 5 represent a box in its entirety, which may be formed of paper, or of any other suitable material.

l Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 191e.

Application filed October 5., 1916. Serial No. 123,852.

The numeral 6 represents the lower pack ing tray in its entirety, and the numeral 7 represents the upper packing tray in its entirety. Both of these packing trays 6 and 7 are formed of paper, or other suitable flexible and inexpensive material and are removably positioned in the box 5 in spaced apart relation, the tray 6 being disposed in the bottom of the box 5 and the tray 7 being disposed at the top of the said box 5. This shipping box is designed primarily for shipping bottles, and the description thereof will be limited to such use. The numeral S represents the bottles positioned within the box 5 and held in cushioned and spaced apart relation by means of the packing trays 6 and 7, the lower packing' tray 6 receiving the base of the bottles 8 and the upper tray 7 receiving the necks of the bottles.

In Fig. 3, the bottom tray 6 is illustrated in its unfolded condition. From this view, it will be seen that the bottom tray is composed of a continuous sheet of card board having corrugated channel cushion niembers 9 and 10 secured to the extremities `thereof by pasting, or by other suitable 4tray 6 is provided with spaced apart perforations, or openings 12 therein, through which the bottom portions of the bottles S are received. The corrugated channel cushion members 9 and 10 are disposed immediately below the perforations 12 when the sheet of card board is in its folded condition whereby the base of the bottles 8 are received in said channel members 9 and 10. The channel members 9 and 10 extend parallel with each other, and are inclosed by the folds of the sheet of paste board, which will hereafter be referred to by the numeral 12. lVhen this sheet 12 is folded, it forms two box-shaped members 13 and 14 with the channel members 9 and 10 internally received therein. A portion 15 of the sheet 12 forms the base of the tray 6 and connects the two box-shaped members 13 and 111 together. The extremities of the sheet 12 are lapped under and rest upon the base 15 of the tray 6, whereby the said extremities receive the entire weight of the bottles 8, thereby acting as a locking means to sustain the tray 6 in a rigid and stable condition.

The upper tray 7 is formed by a continuous strip of paste board 16, which is folded to form two box-shaped membersl and 18, the extremities of the said sheet 16 being brought together and bent to occupy vertical positions, as shown at 19. yThese extremities of the sheet 1 6 form the inner ends of the box-shaped members y1f? andd, 7the said extremities being provided with locking tongues 20, ,which are protruded through the'slieet 16, as s'liownat 21, and. bent away from each other .to prevent the same from beingfdisengaged- The. ,lower` sides of the box-shaped'members1T and. 418 are provided withl perorations 22 therein,

of the bottles 8. ",Ihese per'oratio/ns 22 are suliciently small to cause the tray 7to be supported by the shoulders of the bottlesh prising .ai packingv tray, ,said .packing .,trayf' yet leaving a space between y the mouthsof the bottles 8 and the top of thev tray` 'whereby themouths of the bottles are prevented,from'coming into contact with any solid material.

The corrugated channel,r` members 9 and 10 form cushions for the reception of the bottom of the bottles S, and these cushions,

'in conjunction with' the various llayers of the sheet 12 forming the box-shaped mein;

bers 13 and 14, thoroughly cushion the bot;v

tom of the bottles.

From the foregoing description, it will be understood that the bottom tray 6 sustains the bottoms of the bottles 8 in spaced apart and cushioned condition, and that the upper tray 7 sustains the necks ofthe bottles in spaced apart and cushioned condition. Thus, the particular and specific vconstruction illustrated and described formsy an'eflicient packing means for shipping boxes, at the same time being extremely simple and inexpensive.

l/Vhile I lhave described and illustrated herein a specificv form of the inventionit. is

understood thatv I am not limited thereto and thatthe same maybe modified and Copies of this patent may bexobtained for five cents each, byfaddre-sivnggdig Gemlssipnerof ,Patents-yf i nel cushion which said perforations receive they necks varied without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appencled:.claims.-' m Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is J 1. A shipping box for bottled goods, com.-y

...prisms,a.packingtray Said packing tray being formed of a,sh'eet of card board, chantwo box-,shaped members .with said v/channel z members received therein,.. v@thez tops .of

Mrs-aid boxfshaped membersliaving openings.

C1.therein throughl Whiclif-,the bottomsyof the bottles are received.. l

2. A shippingbox for bottled goods,com.

., ,1, folded from.y its opposite..extremitiestdorm memberssecuredeto theoppof.. 'site extremities of said-Sheet ,o.i":,`card.boai-d,f Athe sa1d.,sheetof cardboardadaptedto be material, the-said. .sheet`,.ofl flexible.. material1 .70 being folded from its opposite extrem-ities inwardly andformingbox-shaped members. i,of the opposite extremities of .said sheetof,

flexible materialand `having uan. intermediate fv lportion of said.I sheetf flexiblevmaterial.

intermediate portion of said sheetblexible.. f

material .forming i ax., bottom. layer, Of said box-shaped members, ,the ,opposite `extremities of said flexiblesheet of material lying on said intermediate portion of said sheet of flexiblematerial, .andthe lt opso-f said box-shaped l members having openings .there in adaptedto. receivethe [bottoms of., said bottles therethroughand withn saidchallnel y cushion members;

In testimony whereof, Igaiiiximylsignaf.

ture in the presenoe of-.two witnesses.

VVILLIAIVIv G. BROVNE... VVitnesses':-

M. JilowELL, V JN0. POWELL. .ff-

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